Developer Relations

The function responsible for building relationships between a company and its developer community — through documentation, events, open-source contributions, and community tooling. Often abbreviated DevRel.

swyx’s tweet By Far My Biggest Gripe… (tweet) argues that current DevRel dashboard tools (Common Room, Orbit) are backward-looking “vanity metrics” — charts that go up for the boardroom — rather than actionable. The gap he identifies: tools that surface proactive prompts (like Slack’s “rooms you haven’t used” nudge or LinkedIn’s anniversary prompts) rather than just aggregating historical data.

Contenda and Lilly Chen are also referenced in this space.

Where this appears

• By Far My Biggest Gripe… (tweet)